Takaone Hotel / Kei Kaihoh Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Ecological Planning for a Place Where the Town Ends and the Forest Begins. This is a renovation project for a hotel located right in front of Takaosanguchi Station, the terminus of the Keio Corporation Railway’s Takao Line, about an hour's train ride from Shinjuku. The hotel is in a place where the sound of trains departing at dawn and the chirping of birds can be heard. We considered how the hotel should be built where the town ends and the forest begins. While the number of visitors to Mt. Takao is said to be as high as 3 million per year, the area has a variety of attractions, but there are few ways to spend time other than climbing the mountain, and it tends to get dark later in the evening.

Yukinohako Storage Space / Kei Kaihoh Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

This is a wooden snow storage built in a small town called Yasuzuka in Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture. The snow storage is a natural refrigerator that utilizes the cold heat of the snow, and this time, rice harvested in the neighborhood will be stored. In addition to the aging of farmers and the lack of successors, farmers in terraced rice paddies in mountainous areas generally have less productivity than farmers on the plain and tend to have lower incomes. The client Joetsu City aims to improve this situation.

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Takaone Hotel / Kei Kaihoh Architects

Yukinohako Storage Space / Kei Kaihoh Architects